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Library Media

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Library Media program educates library media specialists for schools and small public libraries to be information specialists, teachers, instructional partners, administrators, change agents and leaders who

develop, access, and organize information resources in all formats,

educate students and teachers to use these information resources in support of the curriculum and personal needs, and

engage the passions, curiosities, appetites for learning and love of reading in students.

The library media specialist serves the needs of all children with their variety of abilities, learning preferences and cultural understandings. The library is important as a welcoming place in which students and other users can engage in self-discovery and self-directed inquiry, free to move beyond the familiar, without fear of failure and with the support of warm, personal attention. The program is rooted in and gives form and meaning to the principles of democracy: the right of people of all ages to intellectual freedom and the right of people to equity of access to information.